Conquering Quill Studies in Commonwealth Literature
Contents: Preface. I. Poetry: 1. Judith Wright a holistic repertoire of individual talent and global sensibility/I.S.V. Manjula and K. Nirupa Rani. 2. The harmonizing role of nationalism: a view of select Kenyan oral poems/Vennila Ramanathan. 3. Becoming the spirit of the land cultural conflicts in Margaret Atwoods select poems/K.S. Anish Kumar. 4. The M other cultural conflict: a postcolonial reading of the select poems of Derek Walcott/L. Judith Sophia. 5. Stephen gill as human rights activist in shrine/Ram Sharma. 6. Transition from mental consciousness to truth consciousness Sri Aurobindos spiritual approach to social transformation/K. Sathya Sai and G. Baskaran. 7. Landscape as illumination a study of Keki N. Daruwallas the waterfront/G. Parvathy. 8. The elegy and the elegiac in the poetry of Patrick Fernando/R.K. Bhushan. II. Drama: 9. K.N. Panikkars The Lone Tusker as a Natyadharmi play/K. Balachandran. 10. The voice of love: a study of Girish Karnads the fire and the rain/Manchi Sarat Babu. 11. Exploration of parental relationship in select plays of Mahesh Dattani/A. Usha. 12. The plight of the native Indian in George Ryga\'s Ecstasy of Rita Joe/Jisha P.P.13. Proving the self through creative writing: a critical study of Wole Soyinka/Ashish Gupta. III. Fiction: 14. Move over son sisters: Buchi Emecheta is here/S. Usha Kalyani. 15. Psychosis in Chinua Achebes things fall apart/S. Farhana Zabeen. 16. Relocating the dislocated identities: a search for roots in Sally Morgans my place/N. Jayasree. 17. Tyrant twenties : a short study of modern Australian youth in Andrew Mcgahans praise/B. Medows. 18. Socio religious concerns in Rudy Wiebe\'s peace shall destroy many and blue mountains of China/Prema Kumari Marshal. 19. Religious vision in Rudy Wiebe\'s peace shall destroy many/D. Selvaraj. 20. Walling in and walling out: narratives as perspective in the Novels of David Williams/Roopkumar Balasingh. 21. Margaret Laurences a Fetish for love: fragmentation ambivalence and Paradox as typical Canadian tropes in the Canadian short story/S. Sobana. 22. Exploring the fictional luminosity: A Deliberation of Margaret Atwood\'s the edible woman/Ashok Kumar Saini. 23. Life speaks Louder than lips: poscolonial feminist reading of Jean Rhys\'s the Day they Burned the books/K. Shanthi. 24. Double displacement: a study of Rohinton Mistrys tales from Firozsha baag/C. Tessy Anthony. 25. Mid nights children: a study of Salman Rushdies narrative technique/Ram Sharma. 26. Portayal of sufferings of women in Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things/C. Bharathi. 27. Walking her way: Anita Nairs ladies coups/K. Shanthichitra. 28. Anita Desais in custody: a study/T.S.Chandra Mouli and P. Indrani. 29. An interview with Dr. Prem Kumari Marshal/K.S. Anish Kumar. Index.
Calcified colonial writing made way to more vibrant voices demanding attention in unequivocal terms. Liberated colonies enjoying invigorating fresh breath heralded an era of new found confidence irrepressible zeal to stimulate hitherto hibernating creativity employing motifs modals contemptuously condemned by the colonizer to perpetuate his despicable rule. English the language of the elite and the ruling class has been used to express ethnic life age old customs and bottled emotions of the suppressed with reinforced strength. Thus a new literary tradition emerged encompassing diverse cultural expressions under the unifying banner of commonwealth literature.
This volume comprising three sections aims at presenting critical evaluation and clinically objective views to the best possible extent and carries twenty eight perceptive essays in addition to one interview with an eminent academic known for her erudition and astute approach in analyzing and evaluating literary works with exemplary objectivity. It is hoped that this book gets patronage of discerning lovers of literature. (jacket)
